Re: Sending UDP packets

[Saso Kiselkov]

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Stupid to reply to myself, but I forgot to add one last drawback:
224.0.0.1 isn't routable (224.0.0.0/24 is designated as link-local).
That means that should you ever need to span across a router, you're
pretty much out of luck.

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Saso

Saso Kiselkov wrote:
> It's better not to use 224.0.0.1 - that really is only for diagnostic
> purposes. I recommend using something in the 239.0.0.0/8 range
> (administratively scoped multicast), so that you can be relatively sure
> you don't hit unrelated services on other machines.
> 
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